Courses
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The Function of Time: Cultural Complex
Farshid Moussavi, James Khamsi
The studio is one of a series at the GSD focused at exploring the architectural potentials of time and uncertainty in large cultural complexes to…
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Architects’ Club : Clerkwell : London
As London has the world’s highest number of international working graduates in the field of architecture, there is need for an independent* club where they…
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Alimentary Design
Shohei Shigematsu, Christine Cheng
If you are what you eat, this studio will investigate how and what we eat can be used as a catalyst to reconsider architecture and…
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Socio-Environmental Responsive Design
Belinda Tato, Jose Luis Vallejo
This course considers the complexity of the human ecosystem and the interpenetration of natural and artificial elements that are embedded within it. People, nature, and…
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Built Climates
The concept of \”Terroir\” (or \”Climates\” in Burgundy) is popular in France in the term of \”Produits du Terroir\”, which means wine, cheese or sausages…
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21st Century Architecture of Africa and the Diaspora
In the last 500 years, Europe and the West saw dramatic shifts in the nature and shape of their civilisations, from the Renaissance to the…
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Material Performance: Composite Morphology and Fibrous Tectonics
A new understanding of the material in architecture is beginning to arise. No longer are we bound to conceive of the digital realm as separated…
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City of Artificial Extrusions
The studio will investigate the urban model of the detached city through the design of a mixed-use, high-rise tower situated on a property around an…
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Housing in Extreme Environments
The extreme climatic conditions of the North introduce a design paradox for architects. The fragile environmental conditions require incisive designs that respond to irregular loading…
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Architecture of Cultural Prosthetics: Tools for Communication and Expression in the Public Space
Cultural:[1] Of or relating to the ideas, customs, and social behavior of a society. [2] Of or relating to the arts and to intellectual achievements.
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The Forms of Transition
This studio aims to develop, define and demonstrate possible projects for a hyper local scale under the scope and conditions of the architecture of transition.
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Basel Study Abroad Studio Option: Achtung: die Landschaft
Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron
In 1955 Max Frisch, Lucius Burckhardt und Markus Kutter published Achtung: Die Schweiz, a warning about the increasing sprawl throughout the Swiss landscape and a…
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Liminal Space: Transforming the Taylor Yard G2 Parcel
While the Los Angeles River may drift and turn before dispensing its waters into the Pacific Ocean, the sound of its rushing flows are now…
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The Endless Landscape – Observations on the River Hudson
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
‘We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out of the garden is our own ignorance and folly’ Thomas Cole, \”Essay on…
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LIFE-STYLED – CHINA-TOWN
David Mah, Leire Asensio Villoria
Adopting the 1-9-6-6 model (one central city, nine new cities, 60 new towns and 600 central villages), Shanghai’s 1999 ”One City, Nine Towns Development Plan…
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Post-suburb – Nashua NH – New Landscape Territories
The old mill buildings of northern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire are striking both in their scale and number. An extended sequence of mills stretches…
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Airport Park Zurich – A New Park Typology
Martin Rein-Cano, Gareth Doherty
Encircled by the rapid growth of the adjacent towns, the Zurich airport, a major European gateway, plays a broader role in the expanding urban development…
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RURBAN: Resilient Practices and Networks in the Contemporary City (Canceled)
Doina Petrescu, Constantin Petcu
The studio addresses the recent calls for collective urban action to confront challenges such as global warming, depletion of fossil fuels and natural resources, economic…
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The Storm, the Strife, and Everyday Life: Sea Change in the Suburbs
For many Long Islanders, the devastation caused by Superstorm Sandy was a wakeup call, adding urgency to a nascent discussion about Long Island\’s vulnerability to…
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The Countryside as a City
The studio is premised upon two fundamental ambitions, the recuperation of an idea of the city as a project and the pursuit of alternative forms…